Psychosis as a Transformation of the Flesh: Some Merleau-Pontian Musings on Madness
Anthropos December 1, 2025 Adnan Sivić
Psychosis is often understood in one of two ways: as a breakdown of cognitive circuitry, which has nothing to teach us as far as phenomenology is concerned and that can be treated only by focusing on the underlying causal processes that bring it about (reductionism and the 'madness-as-nonsense' view), or, alternatively, as a different interpretation of reality, one with nothing distinctly...